Whether you like it or not Pitchfork is a major influence in the music industry. Just to get your album reviewed says something about your star-power, but to get a good review can change your band’s travel plans. On Monday they reviewed Dead Child’s new album, Attack, and gave it a brutal 4.4. Here is a clip from the review:
“This stuff is bad without being ironic. Bad without being calculated. Bad because it just isn’t any good. Yes, there are chops here. But save for a few mighty moments, they never get put to any interesting use. ‘Twitch of the Death Nerve’ is all oom-pa drumming, tablature-dumb rock guitars, and high school battle of the bands solos. And the too-long-by-four-minutes ‘The Coldest Hands’ forgets itself three or four times during its palm-muted sneeroffs. Jukeboxes do it better.”
Ouch. That said, Dead Child’s Attack may still wind up as one of Pitchfork’s top albums of the year. Here is a great story I read over at We Listen For You last year:
“Now everyone loves to pick on indie rock juggernaut Pitchfork, but this time, we have conclusive proof that someone is asleep at the wheel over there. A perusal of the Individual Best of 2007 lists shows this:
>> Brian Howe
1. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
2. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
3. Eluvium: Copia
4. Devin the Dude: Waitin’ to Inhale
5. Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
6. Kanye West: Graduation
7. Radicalfashion: Odori
8. Burial: Untrue
9. Lil Wayne: Da Drought 3
10. Grizzly Bear: Friend EP
11. Radiohead: In Rainbows
12. BC Camplight: Blink of a Nihilist
13. Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release
14. !!!: Myth Takes
15. A-Trak: Dirty South Dance
16. Matthew Dear: Asa Breed
17. Dan Deacon: Spiderman of the Rings
18. Gui Boratto: Chromophobia
19. CocoRosie: Noah’s Ark
20. M.I.A.: Kala
21. Junior Boys: Dead Horse EP
22. Life Without Buildings: Live at the Annandale Hotel
23. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Is Is EP
24. Library Tapes: Höstluft
25. Feist: The Reminder
This rang a little odd to me, so I looked it up…yep…CocoRosie’s album Noah’s Ark was released in 2005. Now, granted those ultra-hip speak-and-spell users did put out a record this year entitled The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn. “TAGS” garnered a 2.3 rating slightly less than the 3.4 rating from time-traveling Noah’s Ark.”
Here is a great video of some old guys reviewing records…
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